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sl aA St oe We eae . oO * pales duly 8, 1954 Gt R92 | Mare: re = 7 pent. YF La JUL - pe sonra 4 2439 58 IT £ Nate bk RE OF REVIEW. og BS ARIcHaRy WRIGHT ° - . Wier ee WA Ee & if B28 wd J - © 388 Reference is made to your specific request for @...:2& information reflecting captioned individuals defection 728 from the Communist Party. i2 = 298 A review of our files reflects that a security-type G2 investieagion wia conducted during 2943-1916 on a Richard Pathanie? wright, who ie identical with the captioned indi- ‘vVidurl. Wright was born on September , 1908, in Natchez, Mississippi. He claims eipht yerrs of elenentary school / ecucaticn and professes experiente as a novelist, playwrirht, poet, and newspaper revorter. In 1935 he worked on the Federal Writers Project in Chicage and sold articles and shert ateries to magizinea. Ir 1937 he worked on the same Project in New Yorx City. s/t that time he also did scme work for the "Daily Worker" ard beeame a contr’ buting al eet %e?° editor of the "hew Masses." Eoth of these publicetions zi Ge % have been citec as orgars of the Com-unist Party by the “ee ye Cpeci.1 Comittee on Un-Americzn activities, Report, ERR diruary 3, 1939. £=% On March 21, 1912, Wright's name a>peared or. the list f the “committee to Free Earl Browder," which was published fr yw he March 21, 1942, issue of the "People's Voice." The "People ~~ Voice* his been cited by the California comnittes on im-Anerica Activities, peport, 1910, as among the publicutions found "to b. Communist initiated and controlled or #o strongly influenced a: to be in the Stalin solar system" O\. SVP a at Wa Telsea Kote: USIA requested additional information Nene Ri char ight in connection with USIA employee Belmont USIA specifically requested informat{o Gy ° ran defection by Wright A, - = SC / tht f ~~ Noy " p-\09 Ju 181 | pom are el tee | ~.. $6 ty . : atl Holloman . re Mins Gendy_¢-$ fOGi 1 he ~ ~ 33 ~y]2 #